56 Panama Shells. PURPURTD.E. 



40. Oliva veiiulata. 



Synonymy. 



Voluta ixpiduta var. /3 (pars) Born. Mus. p. 216. 1780. 



Martini Conch. II. 158. pi. 46. f. 488. 1773. 



Oliva venulata Lam. in Ann. Mus. XVI. 313. No. 13. 1810. 



Lam. An. sail* V-rt. VII. 422. No. 13. Aug. 1822. 



Lam. in Encyc. Moth. pi. 361. f. 5. 1824. 



Desh. in Encyc. Meth. vers. III. 650. 



No. 12. 1832. 

 Pot. et Mich. Gal. Moll. Mus. Douai. I. 



472. 1838. 

 Kiist. Conch. Cab. pi. 6. f. 5. 1840. 

 Lam. An. sans Vert. X. 611. No. 13. 



Desh. Ed. 1854. 

 rdicularis var. Reeve Conch. Icon. pi. 10. f. 16&. (alt. 



cxcl.) - - Aug. 1850. 



Oar specimen more resembles O. splendidula as figured in 

 the III. Conch, of Chenu, than O. venulata in the same work. 

 We think, however, that it is the species, which is figured in 

 the Encyc. and by Reeve as above. The principal difference 

 between this, shell and O. arant'osa is in the short dark brown 

 bent lines of the former. 



Station. Unk nown . 



Habitat. Unknown ; Lamarck : also Potiez and Michaud. 

 Mazatlan ; Melchers ! Menke. 

 La Paz ; Lt. Green ! Gould Mss. 

 Bay of Panama ; C. B. A. ! 



Duclos (in Chenu) says of his O. venulata, which proba- 

 bly belong* to a different species from ours, " Habite la mer 

 des Indes." In the fruit shanty we found 1 specimen among 

 other shells, all of which are known to inhabit the Bay of 

 Panama. 



